Fiction: M.E. Morris: the Icemen (Presidio Press 1988) This is one of the strangest Antarctica books I’ve read. It’s ostensibly a techno-thriller about Nazis on the ice, the last remnants of the Third Reich moving from Argentina to found their own country in neutral territory. The Nazis are planning to Continue Reading

Fiction film: Bob Saget: Farce of the Penguins (U.S.A. 2007) A rather unfunny parody movie about the French nature documentary March of the Penguins. It uses actual penguin footage with various celebrities voice-acting the characters. If you want to see Samuel L. Jackson, Alyson Hannigan and penguin-related anal sex jokes Continue Reading

Non-fiction: William A. Cassidy: Meteorites, Ice, and Antarctica (Cambridge University Press, 2003) A general reader about meteorites and the American meteorite-hunting program in Antarctica. It’s an interesting, readable book. I wasn’t particularly interested in meteorites before, but this book managed to sell its subject in a way that it seemed Continue Reading

Fiction film: Koreyoshi Kurahara: Antarctica (Japan, 1983) One of the two great, old school Antarctic movie classics, along with the Thing. I’ve already seen the U.S. remake of this movie, Eight Below, so it was wonderful to finally get my hands on the original. It doesn’t disappoint. It’s a movie Continue Reading